Yeay! The computer is working again...for now! It is extremely tempermental and may crash at any moment, but hopefully it will be content long enough for me to finish this post.

So as I said previously, I was away last week in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, with work. The work was very hard, especially as everything had to be through an interpreter. But I was totally won over by the city. Its very small and compact, and although it has been through quite a severe past, the 'old' town which had survived and been regenerated has so much charm. Here are a few of my photos:

Although I don't really believe in Astrology I do find it fun to read my horoscope from time to time, and I do find that I hold a fair few of the typical Libran traits. My mum gave me, as a stocking filler, one of those books which lays out your fortune for the coming year. I don't think I will read it in any great depth, and I certainly won't let it dictate when I decide to do or not do something. I was, however, touched by a couple of quotes that were cited in the book. Totally unrelated to Astrology, but I thought they were poignant enough to share:

I thought I would share a few of the lovely things I was lucky enough to get this Christmas:

Oh my goodness...when it's all written down like that it's actually quite a lot isn't it?!! Perhaps I have set myself too many targets for this year. Well, if I achieve even half of them I will be happy! But I think a lot are achieveable and I have started putting the wheels in motion for some of them already anyway!

On a side note, I have set up my computer at home so I hope to be a little bit more diligent with my blogging (part of my goals after all! lol)! Watch this space ;)

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Argh! I am getting very impatient waiting for my computer to download music to my phone so I thought I would do another wee post to pass the time!!!

Last time I went to Tescos there was a big bag of spinach on sale so it was sitting in the fridge waiting for me to decide what to make with it. In the end I opted for one of my favourite foods - risotto! Again I got the recipie from the Good Food website (I love it so much! I actually have an ever expanding pocket folder full of my fav recipies from there). As I also had some chicken waiting to be used up I poached this at the same time and sliced it for a bit of added protein.

And here is an extreme close-up of the end result - YUM!

Well I was planning on this post being about my 2010 Goals (not resolutions, I never keep them!), but I made a couple of cute little clips last night which I thought would be more fun to share instead!

I have been hankering (lol, what an old fashioned word - love it!) to get a glue gun for ages and finally got round to it last week and I have been itching to use it. So I rushed home last night determined to make something. After searching round the house I managed to find some plain metal hairclips, some material, ribbon, and the best bit - a few (very old) worry dolls, and so I set to work! I think the end results are pretty cute. They are very simple, but sometimes that is the best way.

For the worry doll clip I glued a scrap of material onto the clip first. This was probably the hardest thing to do, and I think I may need to perfect this if I do it again as some of the material is fraying and I would like it neater. But happy enough for a first attempt.

The bow clip is actually salvaged from a Christmas present. I wouldnt be able to tie a bow as neat as this myself, so not sure I could replicate this clip!!! Think you can buy bags of ready tied bows in craft shops tho so that would be fine.


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...I mean 'Happy New Year!'

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and New Years break. We were lucky enough to have a White Christmas...so I thought I'd share some of my pics:

Brrrrr! And after all those cold photos here's a nice cosy one to warm us up!
Well it's back to the ol' grind stone....

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